So I'm planning a wild homegrown local organic "traditional" Thanksgiving

[jpak]

spoiler - it ain't vegetarian

Everything (so far) cooked and baked on/in wood cook stoves...

Hor'se D'overs

Local Organic Cheeses local wicked good organic cow Cheddar and Brie, goat Griswald and Capriani

Maine Shrimp w/homemade cocktail sauce homegrown tomatoes, local honey, homemade cider vinegar, homegrown horseradish (!!!!1111) organic allspice and cloves (origin unknown).

Maine Dulse Dulse is a dried Gulf of Maine intertidal red "seaweed"

Main Course Stuff

Two 16 lb Local Free-range Organic Turkeys

Homemade Organic Stuffing homemade Maine whole wheat bread (organic stone ground Maine whole wheat, neighbor's honey, Maine lard, Maine sea salt, homegrown honey/flour yeast culture), homegrown onions, Maine sea salt, Bell's Poultry Seasoning.

Homegrown Organic Mashed Potatoes potatoes + Maine organic milk.

Homegrown Organic Buttercup Squash squash seasoned with neighbor's organic butter, Maine sea salt, homemade maple syrup.

Baked Homegrown Organic Maine Sweet Corn blanched, cut from cobs, frozen, baked with neighbor's butter.

Baked Homegrown Organic Baked Beans homegrown organic navy beans, Maine organic bacon, organic brown sugar and molasses (origin: Dominican Republic), organic dry mustard (origin: unknown).

Fiddleheads my own fiddleheads, blanched and frozen last spring, with neighbor's butter.

Homegrown Local Organic Broccoli and Cheese Casserole local organic broccoli, homegrown boiling onions, Cabot (Vermont) American process cheese, Maine organic unbleached pastry flour.

Organic But-Not-So-Local Candied Yams had to fight the cook every step of the way on this one - and expensive too - ugh - organic yams (origin: "South of Kittery), organic shredded coconut and dried pineapple (Hawaii), organic sugar (Florida), Maine organic milk and eggs :thumbsup:

Wild Cranberry Relish locally picked wild cranberries, organic oranges (Florida), organic cane sugar (Florida).

Wild Cranberry Sauce locally picked wild cranberries, organic cane sugar (Florida).

Desserts

Homegrown Organic Pumpkin Pie Filling: homegrown baked and riced pie pumpkin, organic brown sugar, organic Maine milk, organic cinnamon, allspice and ginger, Maine sea salt. Crust: Maine organic whole wheat pastry flour, Maine sea salt, Maine lard.

Homegrown Organic Apple Pies (2 kinds) Filling: my own Wolf River and Green Sweet apples, Maine whole wheat pastry flour, organic sugar, pie spice, Maine sea salt. Crust: same as pumpkin.

Homegrown Gooseberry Pie Filling: my own gooseberries (frozen this summer), organic sugar, Maine whole wheat pastry flour. Crust same as pumpkin.

Homegrown Mulberry Pie Filling: my own mulberries (frozen this summer), organic sugar, Maine whole wheat pastry flour. Crust same as pumpkin.

Wild Maine Blueberry Pie Filling: wild Maine blueberries, Maine whole wheat pastry flour, organic sugar, pie spice, Maine sea salt. Crust: same as pumpkin.

Wild Cranberry Ice local wild cranberries, organic oranges and lemons (Florida), organic sugar (Florida). topping: Maine organic whipping cream, organic sugar, organic pineapple (Hawaii). Wicked good.

Beverages

Homegrown Home-Pressed Sweet and Hard Ciders

and...for after dinner stabbin'...

Allen's Coffee Brandy and Organic Maine Milk

Dinner Lighting

Solar LED lights ("orange" diodes) and Maine Beeswax Candles

After Thanksgiving Brunch

"Creton" and "Ployes"

"Creton" (not the proper French Canadian spelling) Maine ground pork, organic onions, organic Maine milk and cream, organic cloves and cinnamon.

"Ployes" Northern Maine-grown Acadian buckwheat crepes (to roll up the "Creton" in).

Finest Kind

:thumbsup:

[proud patriot]

1. sounds delish

[tekisui]

2. Is this my invitation?

Sounds good!

[jpak]

4. LOL! You'd have to fight my nephews to get near the table

:hi:

[tekisui]

5. That's fine, I'll even sit at the kids table.

:hi:

[MADem]

3. You Maine-iac!!! (In the nicest possible way!) Sounds excellent! nt

[Kurovski]

6. Yum.

Enough brandy and it'll be good and wild. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

[DrDan]

7. wow!!!!! - what time should I be there . . . . can I bring anything?????

[kestrel91316]

8. You're gonna have WAY too much food. Can I come?

I'll help wash up and sleep in the kitchen afterwards.

[jpak]

11. There will be 34 people here including 7 teenage boys - they will devour it all in minutes

I just hope it's enough!

And now I know what my Mom used to complain about "5 months to make it, 5 minutes to eat it"

But if you came, I wouldn't make you clean up (but you would have to fight the cats for the couch in the kitchen)...

:hi:

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Ahhhh ... Maine blueberries. I remember those.

It's funny that most people don't think of Maine as a farming state, but it's a major producer of broccoli and potatoes, as well as blueberries.

Next year, go for the solar oven. Global warming seems to be on your side in that regard. :)

[niyad]

10. what time is dinner and is it formal or casual? should I wear my

organic hemp outfit?

[jpak]

12. Formal...MY family???

:rofl:

Half of them will show up in their flame orange huntin' duds (really).

Organic hemp would fit right in...

:hi:

[NNadir]

13. My hero. I dinner fit for the average Chadean, Malian, Sudanese.

Never mind. We couldn't care less about those people. Let them eat cake.

I will bet that this yuppie dinner will cost more money per hour than the annual per capita income of a Cambodian, but then we couldn't care less about Cambodians, could we?

In fact, there is no such thing as organic food anymore. A huge percentage of the earth's protein - and there's some debate about it but it's almost certainly over 25% - derives from Haber industrially fixed nitrogen, almost all of which uses dangerous natural gas as a feedstock.

I am now about to hear some distracted "let them eat cake" balderdash about how nitrogen "could" be fixed using wind power, or some similar distracted yuppie crap, but it is of no consequence.

Nitrogen is not fixed using wind power, the world's entire wind based hydrogen supply still consisting of the ten houses on Utsira, and that wind based hydrogen system will probably shut next year because no one can afford it, even in Norway.

In fact, in order for meals to be "organic" - and let's be clear we're not talking about science here, since "organic" means something quite different in science than it does in Yuppie language - a huge proportion of the planet's population would have to die. And let's also be clear, it wouldn't be brats in Maine who will be doing the dying. It will be the impoverished, the weak, the struggling, the raped, the shot, the bombed.

Then again, it is entirely possible that the roof will cave in on our little distracted set of nobles behind the gates. Neither King Louie the last or his china doll wife got to live out their lives. Because they ignored the poor and tried to pretend they didn't exist, the gates were rushed and broken.

[XemaSab]

15. Thanksgiving is a celebration of PLENTY

Seriesly, if the land he lives in provides enough bounty for him and thirty-odd other people, why not? :shrug:

What good is it going to do a Nigerian if he refrains from eating fresh local blueberries and eats corn pone with a side of rainwater instead? :shrug:

And to the OP, I can bring local avocadoes, cherimoyas, and wine. :9

[jpak]

17. I did the math - it came out to $3.86 per person - for *everything*

You couldn't do better than that buying that stuff from Walmart (if you could even find it).

Any organic Maine ingredients or products that weren't gathered in the wild or home grown were certified by MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association). They're the oldest such organization in the country and quite stringent in their requirements...

http://www.mofga.org/Certification/tabid/142/Default.aspx

They are not allowed to use synthetic fertilizers or manures from animals that have not been raised/fed with certified organic feed.

So your statement that "In fact, there is no such thing as organic food anymore" is not factual.

It is false.

It is wrong.

and can be ignored...

Furthermore, there is nothing "urban" in this meal and no "yuppies" had any hand in it.

So what are the good folks at the Nuclear Energy Institute doing for Thanksgiving???

Are they hosting "Chadean, Malian, Sudanese or Cambodian" peasants???

Are they fasting in solidarity with the starving masses???

No doubt they are toasting Dick Cheney with expensive taxpayer subsidized French (brazillion food miles) champagne, laughing as they devour (endangered, brazillion food miles) beluga caviar, stuffing themselves with GMO-brazillon-food-miles-natural-gas-petroleum-raised turkeys and gobbling up irradiated mangoes from India.

And I guarantee none of them will give a flying fuck about the rat's ass on Turkey Day...

[losthills]

18. And don't forget the Cuban Cigars...

[jpak]

20. and the stretch Hummer limos...

:evilgrin:

[YankeyMCC]

14. You forgot something

Directions to your house...That sounds like a fantastic meal!

I'm trying to do something similar, I've purchased the turkey from a local farm and getting locally grown produce for a few other things (pumpkin soup) but others are bringing the rest so it wont be a nicely local/organic as yours.

[losthills]

16. I'm a Californian,

but my Mom was from Maine. When I was in the Army I was stationed on the East Coast and I would go spend Holidays with my relatives in Portland, and I never ate better in my life. I'll never forget those meals as long as I live-- and my relatives were just blue collar folks. They went out blueberry picking, clam digging and fishing all the time. One of my cousins worked on a fishing boat and he would bring back big lobsters that got caught in the nets...

Reading about your feast brings back some memories.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

[madokie]

19. what time and how do I get there

do I need to bring anything, soft drinks, ice, or beer?